NSA using ANALYTICS!!

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CustomersUnderstanding BUSINESS GOALSCOMPETITORS1. Succeeding in Today’s Operations2. Preparing for the future3. Enhancing and Leading and Expert Workforce4. Implementing Best Business Practices 5. Manifesting Principled Performance

IMPORTANT FOR EVERY COMPANY!Competitive landscapeMultiple agencies with similar role and capabilities compete for budget from Congress

Significant contribution to the development of major technological innovations

New technologies to parse millions of phone, text and online conversationsNoSQL allows queries against all data typesCognitive analytics allows queries to continually tune themselvesHadoop – different analytic tasks distributed among scads of inexpensive serversNSA PRISM – The Mother of all Big Data Projects

NSA using ANALYTICS!!CollaboratorsIMPORTANT FOR EVERY COMPANY!Iraq warRECENT USE OF PREDICTIVE ANALYSISRecently, the NSA used predictive analytics during the Iraq war to find terrorist connections.

They reduced the number of suicide and roadside bombers with the help of the company Palantir.

Recent controversy - PRISM ProgramNSA GATHERS DATA OVERSEAS!U.S. Confirms That It Gathers Online Data Overseas… New York TimesTech Companies Concede to Surveillance Program…New York TimesACCUMULOThe NSA recently developed a data mining program called Accumulo. This program allows the NSA to mine telephone meta-data, email, and social media. Big Brother is watching you..Accumulo allows the NSA to map trillions of “nodes” (data points) and “edges” (connections between two or more data points), to create a discernable picture of the world’s communications.Guess WHO..Using a predictive model, based on call records and Internet activity, the NSA can often prediction name, age, gender data, or likely future locations of individual people.SO WHAT???Predictive examplesWon't BELIEVE! It is REAL!“A young woman calls her gynecologist; then immediately calls her mother; then a man who, during the past few months, she had repeatedly spoken to on the telephone after 11pm; followed by a call to a family planning center that also offers abortions…”

…A likely storyline emerges that would not be as evident by examining the record of a single telephone call.”The NSA nears completion of 100,000 ft2 data center in Utah desert capable of holding about 5 exabytes of informationA popular expression claims that "all words ever spoken by human beings" could be stored in approximately 5 exabytes of data.